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Career Coach: What Spitzer’s Call Girl Should Do Next
Wednesday March 19, 2008

Ashley Dupre
Ashley Alexandra Dupre in 2006.
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What should Eliot Spitzer’s call girl Ashley Dupre do next?

Usmagazine.com consulted Allison Hemming, founder of NYC-based career consulting firm The Hired Guns and author of WORK IT! How to Get Ahead, Save Your Ass, and Land a Job in any Economy.

1. Record an Album!
Dupre's already banked an estimated $200,000 from music downloads, so people are interested in her music. “She should be talking to agents and managers," Hemming says, adding that she should snap up a buzzed-about producer — say, Timbaland — to legitimize her star status. Keep the music light and poppy, Hemming advises, and hint at Spitzer in the lyrics. "She needs to keep people guessing," Hemming says. "It'll extend her 15 minutes.”

2. Get a Reality Show!
“Within three months, she could be in front of the camera,” Hemming advises. The show should follow her as she records her first album. Dupre "can show herself as not just a hooker," Hemming says. "She could be seen as vulnerable and passionate about her career."

3. Pose in Playboy!
If she chooses to bare all, Playboy would be "the most legitimate” of her options, Hemming says. “It’s classier, and she has to start putting herself on a classier route," she says. Dupre should do a “primarily pictorial” spread and save all the details for her book. Oh, yeah: Don't do it for less than $1 million, Hemming adds.

4. Release a Tell-All!
First, “get a Vanity Fair story — it will set her in a literary circle," Hemming advises. Next, hire a ghostwriter. “She should partner with a person whose personal strength is story telling ... Ashley needs to come across in a positive light to change the trajectory of her career," Hemming says.

5. Go on Oprah!
"Oprah is a home run!" Hemming says. But Dupre should wait until she has a project (ahem, that reality show!) to promote. Shedding a few tears couldn't hurt either. Says Hemming, "She should talk about what she’s learned and where she wants to take her life. Send a good message — Oprah's all about hope!"

Click here to see Dupre's first modeling photos.

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